WO2024012839A1 - Verfahren zum quantifizieren einer nukleinsäurelösung und mikrofluidische analysevorrichtung - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for quantifying a solution which contains at least one nucleic acid.
- the present invention also relates to a microfluidic analysis device which is set up to carry out the steps of the method.
- a defined amount of the fluorescent dye whose emission increases significantly after intercalation or binding of nucleic acids, is added to the DNA solution to be measured, and the fluorescence intensity is then measured.
- fluorescent dyes are ethidium bromide, propidium iodide, DAPI (4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole), cyanine dyes or cyanine-based dyes.
- the measured value is compared with a similarly measured standard and the previously unknown amount of DNA is determined.
- the maximum and minimum amount of DNA that can be detected using the method is previously defined.
- EP 3 266 880 A1 describes a fluorescence-based quantification of a target nucleic acid using a data set of a quantitative amplification of reference samples and a data set of a quantitative amplification of the target nucleic acid.
- a reference table is created from the data set of the reference samples, which is used to quantify the target nucleic acid.
- the data sets each describe a curve that is fitted with a sigmoidal function.
- the first solution is first diluted with a second solution which contains at least one intercalating fluorescent dye.
- An intecalating fluorescent dye is understood to mean, in particular, a fluorescent dye whose emission increases after intercalation or binding of nucleic acids.
- Fluorescent dyes used can in particular be ethidium bromide, propidium iodide, DAPI (4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole), cyanine dyes or cyanine-based dyes. This not only reduces the concentration of the nucleic acid in the first solution, but also brings it into contact with the fluorescent dye so that it can intercalate or bind into the nucleic acid.
- Mechanisms that lead to such behavior can be: stiffening of the molecular structure due to binding to the nucleic acid framework, resulting in less vibration relaxation and higher fluorescence quantum yields and/or charge induction and stronger polarization through coupling to nucleic acids (negatively charged nucleic bases), resulting in higher dipole moments for optical Transitions resulting in stronger absorption and fluorescence (higher transition matrix elements) are induced.
- a fluorescence measurement is then carried out on the first solution in order to obtain a fluorescence signal. The steps of diluting and carrying out the fluorescence measurement are repeated several times, with the number of repetitions being predetermined. After each dilution, a fluorescence measurement is carried out on a less concentrated solution of the nucleic acid. Since the concentration of the nucleic acid is not yet known, The fluorescence signals obtained cannot yet be assigned to concentrations of the nucleic acid, but initially only to dilution levels.
- the fluorescence signals are plotted over a dilution of the first solution.
- a first dilution stage, a second dilution stage and so on are plotted on the abscissa, while the fluorescence intensities assigned to the respective dilution stage are plotted on the ordinate.
- a function is then fitted to the fluorescence signals. This function can in particular be sigmoidal, polynomial, exponential/potential or logarithmic functions.
- a local maximum of the function or a local maximum of a first derivative of the function is determined. In particular, the local maximum that is closest to the highest dilution level should be selected. This is referred to below as the relevant local maximum.
- a concentration of the nucleic acid is then determined from a fluorescence signal that lies before the local maximum, in particular before the relevant local maximum.
- “Before” means that the dilution level of the fluorescence signal used to determine the concentration is higher than the dilution level of the local maximum. The determination can be carried out in particular by comparison with an equally measured standard.
- This method allows intrinsic control over which dilution level is optimal for quantification in the linear range of the relationship between nucleic acid concentration and fluorescence intensity.
- the occurrence of a local maximum, in particular a relevant local maximum, of the function serves as an indicator to recognize that the linear range is being left.
- the method is therefore suitable for quantifying a solution containing a nucleic acid in an automated, in particular microfluidic system, in which manual dilution and subsequent re-measurement of the solution is not possible. This goal could not be achieved in a simpler manner by setting a maximum fluorescence intensity above which departure from the linear range can be assumed, since it is due to Interference from some fluorescent dyes, for example fluorophores, could lead to lower measured values.
- the steps of diluting and carrying out the fluorescence measurement are preferably each repeated at least four times. This ensures that sufficient fluorescence signals are available to fit the function and to find a measured value below the local maximum that is suitable for determining the concentration.
- the concentration is preferably determined from a fluorescence signal which is at least two dilution levels before the local maximum, in particular before the relevant local maximum.
- a further preferably determination of the concentration can also be carried out at the dilution stage which is closest to the point with the highest positive slope before the local maximum, in particular before the relevant local maximum.
- the local maximum of the function in particular the relevant local maximum, is determined from a first derivative of the function.
- the local maximum of the first derivative of the function, in particular the relevant local maximum is determined from the second derivative of the function.
- all measured fluorescence signals are in the range of a linear relationship between the nucleic acid concentration and the fluorescence intensity.
- concentration is determined from the fluorescence signal from the first implementation of the fluorescence measurement, since the first solution is the least diluted in this measurement.
- the method can be used to operate a microfluidic analysis device that is set up to carry out the steps of the method.
- the microfluidic analysis device has, on the one hand, structural means in order to be able to carry out the steps of diluting and carrying out the fluorescence measurement repeatedly.
- it has means for applying the fluorescence signals over the dilution of the first solution, for fitting a function to the fluorescence signals, for determining a local maximum of the function and for assigning a concentration of the nucleic acid from the fluorescence signal that lies before the local maximum determine.
- these process steps are implemented in particular as a computer program.
- Figure 1 shows schematically a part of a microfluidic analysis device according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- Figure 2 shows a flowchart of a method according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- Figure 3 shows a diagram of a relationship between a DNA concentration and a fluorescence intensity in an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- Figure 4a shows a diagram of a polynomial function that shows a relationship between a DNA concentration and a fluorescence intensity in an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- Figure 4b shows a diagram of the first derivative of the polynomial function according to Figure 4a.
- Figure 1 shows elements of a microfluidic analysis device 10 according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention. These elements are partly arranged in a fluidic layer of a microfluidic cartridge and partly arranged in an analysis device which accommodates the microfluidic cartridge.
- a first microfluidic channel 11 is arranged in the fluidic layer and opens into a first microfluidic chamber 12. It is designed to transport a first solution 21 into the first microfluidic chamber 12.
- the first solution 21 is an aqueous solution of DNA in a buffer medium.
- the concentration of DNA is unknown.
- the first microfluidic chamber 12 is connected to a second microfluidic chamber 14 via a second microfluidic channel 13.
- a second solution 22 is stored in the second microfluidic chamber 14.
- the second solution 22 contains an intercalating fluorescent dye (for example contained in the QubitTM IX dsDNA HS Working Solution from Thermo Fisher Scientific).
- the first microfluidic chamber 12 has a transparent window, above which a fluorescence sensor 15 of the analysis device is arranged.
- the fluorescence sensor 15 has a light source to excite fluorescence in the first solution 21 and a sensor to detect the fluorescence response. It is connected to an electronic computing device 16, which is also connected to a pneumatic manifold, not shown, of the analysis device.
- a pneumatic layer of the cartridge can be controlled via the pneumatic manifold in order to control liquid flows in the fluidic layer.
- the sequence of a method according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention is shown in FIG. This is implemented as a computer program in the electronic control unit 16.
- the first solution 21 is first presented 31 in the first microfluidic chamber 12, in which it is pumped into it through the first microfluidic channel 11.
- the first solution is then diluted 32 21 with the second solution 22, the dilution ratio in the present exemplary embodiment being 1:2.
- the dilution is carried out by pumping part of the second solution 22 stored in the second microfluidic chamber 14 through a second microfluidic channel 13 into the first microfluidic chamber 12.
- a fluorescence measurement is then carried out 33 on the first solution 21 using the fluorescence sensor 15.
- the method steps 32 and 33 are repeated until a test 34 shows that six dilutions of the first solution were carried out and six fluorescence signals were recorded.
- a polynomial function F is now fitted 42 to the fluorescence signals.
- the fitted function F is shown in Figure 4a. This is followed by determining 43 a local maximum M of the function F by calculating the first derivative F 'of the function F. This is shown in Figure 4b.
- the position of the maximum M in the function F in FIG. 4a is shown by means of a dashed line which connects FIG. 4b with FIG. 4a.
- a local maximum M' of the first derivative F' of the function F is calculated. This can be done by taking the second derivative.
- a test 44 now follows as to whether a local maximum M or M' was found. If this is the case as shown in Figures 4a and 4b, then the concentration C is determined 45 from the fluorescence signal h, which lies before the local maximum M or M '. The relationship between the Fluorescence intensity I and concentration C are produced by a reference measurement. A chamber with the reference sample is also arranged in the fluidic layer of the microfluidic cartridge, but is not shown in Figure 1.
- the concentration C is determined 46 from the fluorescence signal from the first implementation 33 of the fluorescence measurement.
- the method is ended 47.
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